[Python-checkins] r81274 - python/branches/release31-maint

[lars.gustaebel]

Author: lars.gustaebel
Date: Mon May 17 20:11:22 2010
New Revision: 81274

Log:
Blocked revisions 81273 via svnmerge

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  r81273 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-05-17 20:02:50 +0200 (Mon, 17 May 2010) | 15 lines
  
  Issue #8633: Support for POSIX.1-2008 binary pax headers.
  
  tarfile is now able to read and write pax headers with a
  "hdrcharset=BINARY" record. This record was introduced in
  POSIX.1-2008 as a method to store unencoded binary strings that
  cannot be translated to UTF-8. In practice, this is just a workaround
  that allows a tar implementation to store filenames that do not
  comply with the current filesystem encoding and thus cannot be
  decoded correctly.
  Additionally, tarfile works around a bug in current versions of GNU
  tar: undecodable filenames are stored as-is in a pax header without a
  "hdrcharset" record being added. Technically, these headers are
  invalid, but tarfile manages to read them correctly anyway.
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Modified:
   python/branches/release31-maint/   (props changed)